The Mets are signing outfielder Jaylin Davis to a minor league contract with an invitation to big league camp, tweets Joel Sherman of the New York Post. The Beverly Hills Sports Council client had elected free agency at the start of the offseason after being outrighted off the Red Sox’s 40-man roster.
Davis, 28, has reached the big league level in each of the past four seasons. He’s seen action with the Giants and Boston but always in a limited capacity. Davis has played in 38 MLB games and tallied 95 trips to the plate, hitting .207/.274/.299 with a 30.5% strikeout percentage.
Swing-and-miss has been an issue for Davis in the minor leagues as well. He fanned at a near-31% rate over 346 plate appearances with the Sox’s top affiliate in Worcester last season. The right-handed hitter paired that with a strong 12.4% walk percentage but still stumbled to a .203/.312/.334 line overall.
Davis has fared better in previous Triple-A stints, however. Over parts of three seasons at the top minor league level, he owns a .258/.348/.503 slash with a 29.2% strikeout percentage while walking at a 10.6% clip.
Davis has experience at all three outfield positions. He’s primarily worked in right field as a professional, logging over 3000 minor league innings there compared to fewer than 800 frames in both left and center. The Mets have Brandon Nimmo, Starling Marte, Mark Canha and Tommy Pham lined up for outfield work, with Darin Ruf an option for the corners. Davis joins Abraham Almonte, Tim Locastro, Khalil Lee and DJ Stewart among non-roster players in camp.
Wow!
Did a sports “reporter” ask if he’s open to an extension yet?
Wow the Mets season is saved!
The outfield depth is sorely lacking.
Throw them against the wall and see who sticks.
He can mash. Really hope he catches on in NY. Has the ability to be great
Except at the major league level.
Classic AAAA guy.
Can’t hit a breaking ball unfortunately, and the league knows it. Was really pulling for him.
NYM need more OF depth
Right, what happens if Canha & Marte go down…they aren’t exactly picture perfect specimens of health. Nimmo isn’t either tbh. Outfield depth is a good thing. I know Mets have dudes in AAA that can step up if there’s an absolute disaster injury-wise.
Pham and McNeil would start. That’s five quality outfielders. How many more do you want on the roster?
If two of them are down at the same time, who do they pull from AAA? The key is for Baty to get acclimated out there because injuries with this outfield are inevitable.
They have McNeil too. They can plug him into a corner spot
Eppler is a fool. No outfield depth no bullpen depth on and no upgrades compared to last seasons roster. But he got payroll over $300mm!
They actually have depth in both if you paid attention. Canna, Marte, Nimmo, Pham and McNeil are five quality outfielders. Never seen a team carry six. The bullpen of Diaz, Ottavino, Robertson, Smith, Raley, Curtiss, Peterson, Megill and about ten other up and down call ups is stacked.
Yeah, they should have hired you instead.
Justin upton would of been 10x better than him & pham combined ughhh Cohen!!!!!
Davis has fared better…I’m going to add a random letter.
Davis has farted better.
He certainly stinks.
OK, so the Marlins didn’t televise tonight’s game so I had to catch it on SNY.
Considering Keith Hernandez’s part in pushing Tim McCarver out when McCarver was one of the voices of Mets baseball on WOR, how many older baseball fans were like me in wanting to puke when Keith was trying to talk up McCarver tonight during the broadcast?
I’m sorry, but when you’re one of the culprits behind a guy’s dismissal from a job, when the guy passes many years later, just keep the piehole shut instead of pretending that you cared for his work, all the while hoping that older baseball fans forgot or won’t mention it to the fans who are to young to remember or know what you did. What’s next for Keith? Is he going to talk about how he learned all about and how to respect the game from Whitey Herzog when Herzog passes?
Seriously, when someone Keith had issues with passes, Keith needs to stay mute because every time he tries some of this stuff with people he burned bridges with, older fans and baseball people remember exactly why Keith is not in the Hall of Fame when his performance ON THE FIELD makes him a Hall of Famer, but his garbage OFF THE FIELD keeps him out.
What happen to Sam Dyson? Think he pitched gor us in the last wbc, still only 31 33 I think